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Oh yes, August is an awesome month with the beginning of football all the way around! Who doesn’t love football whether it’s college or pro? Of course everyone is talking about the Seahawks and what will they look like this year? Will the cowboys ever win another super bowl or are they washed up forever? And, what’s going on with the Vikings?

The Oregon Ducks and Beavers kick off their first official game on Saturday, August 30th. What’s the buzz on the Ducks right now?

“Oregon plays a challenging schedule in 2014, drawing four teams that finished the 2013 campaign ranked in the final Associated Press Top 25 Poll. Combine those match-ups with the ever-increasing depth of the entire Pac-12, and the Ducks’ path to the College Football Playoff is dotted with potential potholes. Each of the five most important games on the Ducks’ schedule poses its own unique test, though all are crucial to Oregon’s championship ambitions.” ~ Bleacher Report

We shall see, and of course Greeley will have every game available!

Here’s some college football trivia for you.

The first Orange Bowl was played in 1935 between theUniversity of MiamiandManhattanCollege. To save money, theManhattanCollege team took a three-day boat ride to Miami.

Irvine Cotton Warburton is the only member of the College Football Hall of Fame to receive an Academy Award. He won for his film editing work on 1964’sMary Poppins.

Chief Osceola, the Florida State mascot who rides out and plants a flaming spear at midfield before each home game, has been approved by Florida’s Seminole Indian Tribe.

Inthe 1940s, college bowl games included the Raisin Bowl, Salad Bowl and Oil Bowl.

Michigan holds the record for the most bowl appearances (31).

During the 1990s, Prairie View College put together an 80-game losing streak. One season, they were outscored each game by an average margin of 56 to 4.

The Oklahoma Sooners hold the record for the longest winning streak in college football. The streak lasted 47 games, from 1954 until 1957.

The most laterals in a game (8) came during the Michigan Wolverines’ final play ofthe AlamoBowl in 2005.

Before every home game, flowers are placed at the graves of every former Uga (the English Bulldog mascot of Georgia).

The warm summer days are drifting by. Most days we have a clear brilliant blue sky with an occasional puff of white floating lazily by. Great camping weather, but I heard, and it’s just rumor of course that the camping grounds are pretty much booked through labor day! So what’s someone to do? Go to Greeley Avenue Bar and Grill, grab a beer and watch some sports!

August means a lot of things, but there’s one really awesome thing that August brings and that’s football!! I realize that it’s only the NFL preseason games, but if you’re a fan, you’re a fan and any football will work. So not only does the NFL start their first preseason game August 7th, but our Ducks and Beavers play their first games at the end of the month. The excitement is about to begin!

In the spirit of football, here are some interesting NFL facts for you in case Roy Smallwood asks questions during Quizzy Trivia on Wednesday nights at 6:30 p.m.

78% of NFL players are bankrupt just two years after finishing their careers! There’s a group of “Science Cheerleaders,” former NFL and NBA Cheerleaders who go around getting people interested in science!The longest field goal in NFL history was kicked by a man who had only half a foot!

NFL cheerleaders only make $50 a game!

During a typical NFL game, the ball is only in play for 11 minutes!

When former NFL quarterback Kurt Warner dines out with his family, he always anonymously picks up the bill for one other table.

Deion Sanders is the only person to hit an MLB home run and NFL touchdown in the same week. He’s also the only person to play in the World Series and the Super Bowl.

The American Sports industry is worth $422 billion and employs 1% of the population!

The Baltimore Ravens are named after Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”

For over a decade, players that were featured on the cover of the Madden NFL video games were ‘cursed’ with a serious injury or a dramatic reduction in performance during the following season.

The ‘G’ on the Green Bay Packers helmet does not stand for ‘Green Bay’.

The huddle formation used in football came from deaf football players.

Welcome to August everyone! 2014 is passing us at a frantic pace and before you know it, we’ll be talking about the holidays! But, we have some time in between and lots of great sports are showing on TV.

Have you hopped over to Twitter and Facebook to like and follow Greeley? If not, then you should because you get the inside scoop of menu goodies, new drinks and special events. It’s worth your few minutes.

Yes, that’s correct and Greeley Avenue continues to support the culture that changed it all. In fact, the pursuit of beer changed the course of humanity forever in 5000 BC. Neolithic people abandoned their wandering lives for farming, to grow grain for brewing beer. Now that’s some interesting information. And, Portland, Oregon, is known all across the country for the number of brewery’s and beers we produce.

So, come on in to Greeley, order a beer and be a part of the ongoing change of humanity.

In eleventh-century England, a bride would distribute ale to her wedding guests in exchange for donations to the newlyweds. This brew, known as Bride Ale, is the origin of the word ‘bridal.

After consuming buckets of aul (or ale), the Vikings would head fearlessly into battle, often without armor or even shirts. In fact, “berserk” means “bare shirt” in Norse, and eventually took on the meaning of their wild battles.

The Egyptian pyramids were built on beer. Stonecutters, slaves and public officials were paid in a type of beer called ‘kash’ – which is where the word ‘cash’ originated.

In Egypt, two containers of beer were the minimum wage for a day’s labor.

In English pubs, unruly customers were told to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down – and so began the phrase “mind your P’s and Q’s”. (Another explanation is customers were being warned about the potency of the beer. At ‘freehouses’ where people could make and sell their own beer, there was less control on the alcohol content.)

Before thermometers were invented, brewers would dip a thumb into the mix to find the right temperature for adding yeast. Too cold and the yeast wouldn’t grow; too hot and the yeast would die. This ancient practice is where we get the phrase ‘rule of thumb’.

Have a great week and we’ll see ya there!

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We are nearing the end of July and new sports are approaching in August. Okay, well NFL pre-season anyway. Since I’m a huge football fan, I tend to count down the days! But, it’s not only pro football the Ducks and Beavers kick off at the end of August as well. In the meantime Greeley has your baseball and soccer schedules for you.

I know everyone is thrilled to see this month’s Greeley Grindhouse movie showing on Thursday, at 7:20 p.m. Who can miss the excitement and intrigue of the “Planet of Dinosaurs“? Mac Bell will host the evening fun with smack TV. We anticipate a full house so grab your seat early!